When the morning frost of Green Ox Valley condensed on the Abacus Contract, the Protagonist's abacus-bead oxcart rumbled across the stone slab road of Sufang Village. The abacus beads bounced on the wheels into the character "Sign": "We must sign the last nine villages today!" A farmer huddled under the eaves muttered, "An advance deposit is nice, but I'm afraid they won't honor it come autumn..." The abacus beads instantly bounced into the character "Renegade," projecting a magnificent Mount Tai-style abacus image on his doorframe that read: "Abacus Contracts are as firm as mountains; those who break them shall be punished."
Inside the Medicinal Farmer Academy, Moli was teaching the farmers how to affix their thumbprints when the abacus beads suddenly bounced into the character "Seal." As an old man pressed his thumb down, the abacus beads actually caused a pattern of gold powder to materialize on his palm, reading: "Contract signed, boundless wealth and prosperity." The old man stared in amazement: "These abacus beads shine brighter than the magistrate's cinnabar!" The abacus beads bounced into the character "Praise," embroidering a small flag on his walking stick that read: "Farm with literacy, abacus beads hail a hero."
Xiaotao's pickled vegetable lesson drifted with the plum fragrance of the abacus beads. The beads bounced into the character "Fresh" on the pottery jar: "The newly learned Abacus-Fragrant Plum Pickle needs to be pickled for forty-nine days, and the abacu…
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